Soviet Chess Player
1. Kira Zvorykina (1919)
Soviet Chess Player
One of the most prolific female chess masters of the mid-20th century.
2. Efim Geller (1925)
Soviet Chess Player
Soviet chess master who won the Soviet Championship in 1955 and 1979.
3. Tigran Petrosian (1929)
Soviet Chess Player
Soviet chess master who was the World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969.
4. Nona Gaprindashvili (1941)
Soviet Chess Player
Nona Terentievna Gaprindashvili is a Georgian chess player the sixth women's world chess champion and first female Grandmaster. Born in Zugdidi Georgia she was the strongest female player of her...
5. Bukhuti Gurgenidze (1933)
Soviet Chess Player
Bukhuti Ivanovich Gurgenidze was a Georgian chess Grandmaster born in Surami. He was a multiple Georgian Champion and played in eight USSR Chess Championships. He shared first place with Mikhail...
6. Igor Platonov (1934)
Soviet Chess Player
Igor Platonov was a Ukrainian–Soviet Grandmaster of chess. Platonov had no international title at all. He was active between 1958 and 1984 with his best years from 1967 to 1972...
7. Fedor Duz-Khotimirsky (1879)
Soviet Chess Player
Ivanovich Duz–Khotimirsky was a Ukrainian chess master. He was a four-time winner of the Kiev championship. He participated in five Russian championships. In 1901 he took 15th in Moscow.
8. Alexey Selezniev (1888)
Soviet Chess Player
Alexey Selezniev was a Russian chess master and chess composer. Selezniev was born into a wealthy merchant Russian family and was a graduate from Moscow University's law faculty. He...
9. Alexey Sokolsky (1908)
Soviet Chess Player
Alexey Pavlovich Sokolsky was a Ukrainian-Belarusian chess player of International Master strength in over-the-board chess a noted correspondence chess player and an opening theoretician.
10. Alexander Shakarov (1948)
Soviet Chess Player
Alexander Shakarov is a Soviet chess player coach and author of Armenian descent. He is best known for being Garry Kasparov's coach from 1976 to 2005. Together they wrote Caro-Kann:...
11. Gia Nadareishvili (1921)
Soviet Chess Player
Gia Nadareishvili was a Soviet chess composer of Georgian nationality and author of many books on chess studies. He was co-founder with John Roycroft and others of the Permanent Commission...
12. Olga Ignatieva (1920)
Soviet Chess Player
Olga Mikhailovna Ignatieva was a Soviet chess player.
13. Gavriil Veresov (1912)
Soviet Chess Player
Gavriil Nikolayevich Veresov was a Soviet chess player. He was awarded the title of International Master in 1950. Veresov was a five-time winner of the Belarusian Chess Championship. Veresov came...
14. Isakas Vistaneckis (1910)
Soviet Chess Player
Isakas Vistaneckis was a Lithuanian Jewish chess master.
15. Evgeny Sveshnikov (1950)
Soviet Chess Player
Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov is a Latvian former Soviet International Grandmaster of chess and a chess writer.
16. Rafael Vaganian (1951)
Soviet Chess Player
Rafael Artemovich Vaganian also transliterated Vahanyan is an Armenian chess grandmaster known for his sharp tactical style of play. Vaganian was born on 15 October 1951 in Yerevan.
17. Tatiana Voronova (1955)
Soviet Chess Player
Tatiana Voronova is a Latvian chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master. She won the Latvian Chess Championship for women in 1980 1985 1986 and 1987.
18. Zurab Azmaiparashvili (1960)
Soviet Chess Player
Zurab Azmaiparashvili is a chess Grandmaster from Georgia. In the September 2010 FIDE list he has an Elo rating of 2637 making him 114th in the world and Georgia's number...
19. Handszar Odeev (1972)
Soviet Chess Player
Handszar Odeev is a Turkmen chess Grandmaster. He played a record seven times in the Soviet Union Junior Chess Championships: in 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 and 1990. Played...
